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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York : The Century co. · leaf 286

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A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT … Fig. 267. Ac- French Romanesque friezes or bands. Leaves from Towards the end of the twelfth century, however, we find in its place, and evidently descended from it, an ornament consisting of broad fluted triple or five-lobed leaves enclosed by branching leaves often adorned with jewels. Sometimes…

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